Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 112
In his hand was his trusty sword Hautclere, its blade red with blood.
What happens: be · To what, where: trusty sword, hand
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sword | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sword | amod |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | Hautclere | Hautclere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blade | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blade | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | conj |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blade | amod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 red | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Engelier's trusty sword and sword's blade | Engelier's hand | Engelier nmod:poss; Hautclere appos; sword's blade conj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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